Okay, maybe the effects are not that extreme but still. Beards are beneficial says some of the latest research (who knew you could research such awesome topics?).

Men, do you have a beard? No?!!! Well you better start investing in your facial garden if you want to look more handsome, have healthier skin, and even improve your yearly allergy issues. That's right, beards can make you look younger, more handsome, prevent sun damage, and can keep allergens from reaching your lungs. Your beard may literally save your life!

Interested read TBD. Unfortunately I cannot grow a beard worth a damn, wish to hell I could, but it was not meant to be. Aside from being required to shave my face at least a couple a times a month as a consequence of being a reservist the best I could muster would be a scraggly looking goatee. My moustache grows in on the thin side, and very blond, the facial hair on my checks is very sparse, and for some damn reason my sideburns do not quite connect to the hair on my head. My wife actually likes me with my goatee, but it takes me about two and a half to three weeks to grow one that looks decent and with my monthly shaving requirement it just isn't worth it. Sucks for me.

My lovely wife won't let me shave mine off. So either 1) she thinks I look irrestible with it or 2) It hides my face so she can bear to look at me.

“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man’s reasoning powers are not above the monkey’s.”~Mark Twain
“Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.”~ Ambrose Bierce

But seriously, I could grow a mighty Hungarian mustache but I was born in a wrong century and wrong country. And I'd say my other facial hair isn't quite the pattern I'd need. Good quality, but in wrong places. I guess I'd look like something from the age of kings when they had two-pointed beards or something. T'was the experimenting period. Thankfully, almost all my photographs from that era are either destroyed, or defaced.

These years I go with mostly stubble and I think that's going to last for the end of my life. Some scientific studies praising the health and sexual benefits of stubble face are bound to appear sooner or later.

(27-02-2013 05:12 AM)Luminon Wrote: These years I go with mostly stubble and I think that's going to last for the end of my life. Some pseudo-scientific studies praising the health and sexual benefits of stubble face are bound to appear sooner or later.